Improvement in stove-legs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK S. BERRY, OF MERCER, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT lN STOVE-LEGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,777, dated January 29, 1878; application filed December 15, 1877.

. the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view of my stove-leg, and Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same.

My invention relates to stove-legs; and it consists in providing an ordinary stove-leg with a caster having a set-screw for chucking the wheel or roller, and also in providing the upper arm of the stove-leg with a set-screw for holding the leg firmly in place on the stove, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate my invention.

A represents an ordinary stove-leg, provided at its upper end with an arm, B, to be inserted between the usual guides or flanges on the bottom of a stove. Through this arm is passed a set-screw, O, which, when the leg is put in position, is to be screwed up and bear against the bottom of the stove, to hold the leg firmly in its place.

The leg A is constructed in the usual manner, and has at its lower end a fiat piece, A, filling the hollow in the back of the leg. Through this piece A is passed the shank or stem b of an ordinary caster-frame, D, in which the wheel or roller G-is pivoted. The casterframe is held to the leg by a nut, 61, on the upper end of the shank or stem 1), but the frame is allowed to turn, nevertheless, as required.

Through the frame D is passed a set-screw, h, which, when the stove has been put up in place, is to be screwed in to bear against and chuck the wheel G.

The advantages of my invention are too obvious to need any description, while the devices themselves are simple and durable, and can be applied to new stoves as well as to old ones.

I am aware that a stove-leg having an internally-threaded socket, a caster-wheel provided with an adjustable threaded shank and a set-screw, as shown in Letters Patent granted to E. H. Harding, dated July 16,1872,No. 129,550, are not new with me; and, therefore, I lay no claim to such devices; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 7 As a new article of manufacture, a stoveleg, provided at its upper end with an arm, B, and set-screw O, and at its extreme base with a flat piece, A, through which is passed the shank of a caster-wheel frame fastened thereto by a nut, 01, substantially asshown and described.

In testimony that I.claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

' FRANK SCOTT BERRY.

Witnesses:

M. F. CARR, J. G. DREW. 

